SHREVEPORT, La. (CBS Houston)  Louisianas State Health Department forced a homeless shelter to destroy $8,000 worth of deer meat because it was donated from a hunter organization.

KTBS-TV reports that the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission lost 1,600 pounds of venison because the states Health Department doesnt recognize Hunters for the Hungry, an organization that allows hunters to donate any extra game to charity.

The trouble began last month after the Department of Health and Hospitals received a complaint that deer meat was being served at the homeless shelter. A health inspector went out and told the homeless shelter that deer meat was not allowed to be served and that is had to be destroyed.

Although the meat was processed at a slaughterhouse (Bellevue) that is permitted by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture to prepare and commercially distribute meat obtained from approved farms, deer are not an approved meat source to be distributed commercially, the department said on its Facebook page. And because hunters brought the deer to the slaughterhouse, there is no way to verify how the deer were killed, prepared or stored.

Martin says that bleach had to be poured onto the meat in order to destroy it.

They threw it in the dumpster and poured Clorox on it, Martin told KTBS. Not only are we losing out and its costing us money, the people that are hungry arent going to get as quality of food, the hunter thats given his meat in good faith is losing out.

The government knows what’s best for you comrade. The evil hunters actually providing sustinence through their skill as hunters is a backward way of thinking comrade. Every good and compliant citizen knows that only the government approved food sources are correct for your consumption comrade.

(If I even think that I need a sarcasm tag for this, you’re either dead, or you are already too far gone! :).

How come to appeal to Bobby Jindal??....You bring in the TV cameras and embarrass the shyte out of the retard bureaucrat trying to throw deer meat in the garbage. I would love to see a photo of this idiot.

Hunters spent a lot of time and effort here and so did the slaughterhouse (prolly done for free) and a retard bureaucrat pisses on all these fine efforts

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posted on 02/26/2013 9:12:47 AM PST
by dennisw
(too much of a good thing is a bad thing --- Joe Pine)

My wife and I hardly eat any beef at all. We mostly eat deer, antelope and elk which I hunted. Oklahoma Wildlife Department has a hunters against hunger program where hunters an donate their deer to the hungry if they want.

They should look to Alaska, which allows proxy hunting - meaning if you are elderly or disabled, a young person can hunt and fill your tags for you. I know this was for a homeless shelter, just sayin’.

Seems like a golden opportunity for civil disobedience was missed. I've heard of some pretty creative "foods" consumed by those hungry enough to eat them. Venison is a real treat. Those who would deny hungry people venison because of politics are disgusting human beings and completely unworthy of the leadership positions they possess.

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posted on 02/26/2013 9:58:28 AM PST
by so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")

I would venture to compare the ‘way the venison was slaughtered’ with any licensed slaughter house. Just let the ‘huggies’ take a look at the pictures and see if they change their mind. Deal is, the libtards don’t want anyone eating any kind of meat procured in any fashion, and especially, the lowly hunter should never get any cudos for donating meat to a worthy and needy cause.

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posted on 02/26/2013 10:10:21 AM PST
by rdon
(Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)

My guess would be that it was some young vegetarian "feel-good" liberal that was "solving society's problems" by showing up at the homeless shelter for an hour a month to "chip in a hand". They, likely, found the though of eating venison to be repulsive and therefore, it is better to save the homeless from the need to reduce themselves to eating venison?!?!?!?!?!?!? Freakin' liberal hipster idiots - can we just kill them already?

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posted on 02/26/2013 11:01:11 AM PST
by RobertClark
("May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't" - George S. Patton)

What was the complaint? If someone had gotten ill it would have been mentioned. It was probably that it was either too tough or that they couldn’t eat Bambi. I haven’t been able to go deer hunting for the past five years and we miss the venison. I process my own deer and make ground deer as well as sausage, jerky and steaks. I hope to go Turkey hunting this Spring and start deer hunting again next year.

Although the meat was processed at a slaughterhouse (Bellevue) that is permitted by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture to prepare and commercially distribute meat obtained from approved farms, deer are not an approved meat source to be distributed commercially, the department said on its Facebook page. And because hunters brought the deer to the slaughterhouse, there is no way to verify how the deer were killed, prepared or stored.

I can see that. Anybody could drag roadkill to the slaughterhouse. Would you feed your family meat that no one other than an unknownn “hunter” brought in to be processed? If they can come up with a way to get wild game to meet USDA standrads then it might be different.

Think you're right about that or it was a PETA type sticking his nose where it didn't belong.

Jindal needs to address this stupidity.

This may not be as mindless as it appears. A number of states in the north have deer with what's called chronic wasting disease. It's a spongiform encephalopathy like mad cow disease. So I googled chronic wasting disease louisiana. Voila!

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